2020 Christmas Parade

We got the chance to ride in the New Brighton Christmas Parade on Lofty the train on Saturday the 12 of December. It was super fun to be involved in the parade thanks to the local branch of the Lions.

Here are some photos ...

Tabloid Sports Day

 Last week the Year 3's got to go to a tabloid sports day organised and run by the students at Shirley Boys High School. It was great. We got to try out a lot of activities.

Even giraffes are mindful!

Yesterday the Mindful Movers came to school for our second lesson this term. Mindfulness helps us keep calm and stay in our green brain. Here we are practising our mindfulness. We listen to the ding of the bell for as long as we can and concentrate on our breathing. 

Leave us a comment about what helps you stay in your green brain.

Super Sports Session

Today the college students from Avonside Girls' High School came and ran a tabloid sport session for us. We had a great time and tried some new games. We want to say, "Thank you, Avonside! We hope you can come back soon."

Come fishing with us ...

Today we made fish kites as part of our Choice and Challenge activities.
Here we are fishing off the playground.

Can you make a fish kite and share a picture with us?

Planting afternoon at Rāwhiti Domain

Yesterday a small group of students walked down to Rāwhiti Domain to plant trees. Thankfully we had amazing weather! We planted a range of plants on a hill. 

Thank you to all the parents who came and helped!

For Sale! Tiny Minecraft Houses...

A group of students from Papatūānuku were given the challenge to build a tiny house.  The limit of the floor plan for the house was a maximum of 40 blocks in perimeter.

Do you have any Minecoins? Check out the student blogs to see all the different houses for sale.  What house would you buy?  

Houses For Sale:

For sale: Stone Tiny House

Builders: JT and Maeve 

For sale: Red & White Tiny House

Builders: Joel and Jamahni

For sale: Tiny White House

Builders: Braxton and Archer 

For sale: The Tiny Stone House

Builder: Samara 

For sale: Tiny Spy House

Builders: Caleb and Samuel 

For sale: Tiny Mansion 

Builders: James and Niko 

For sale: Minecraft Tiny House

Builders: Emilie and Harley 

For sale: Tiny Wizard House

Builders: Jasper and George 

For sale: Tiny Wooden House with Secret Rooms

Builder: Paige 

For sale: Tiny House

Builder: Jaxon

For sale: The Luxury 2-Storey House

Builder: Ben

For sale: Purple Boy Tiny House

Builder: Lucas

For sale: A Tiny House for Sale!

Builder: Anika & Mira

Voice type reading

Today, during our Chromebook time we learnt how to use the 'voice type' tool in Google Docs.

We had to put our new skills to use and remember how to make a copy of something and save it to our drives. Next we had to insert a photo of the book cover and then use the 'voice type' to record our reading for us. Once we finished our book we used the 'word count' tool to tell us how many words we read. We hope to beat that number next time we do reading. 

This is the second time we have used this tool and each time we are getting better at navigating our way around the Google Doc and where to find the 'tools' we need. 

Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful blog comments

Kia ora whānau,

Today in our cyber safety lesson we are learning how to write a quality blog comment. We are learning how to write a comment that is; Positive, Thoughtful and Helpful to the blogs we are visiting. 

Below I have posted a piece of work that I would like the children to comment on. In the comments section they will be posting their own comment showing what they have learnt about a quality blog post. This post is designed to have mistakes and get the children thinking about how to help me in my learning journey and encourage me to keep trying. It is also designed to have the children highlight the things I did well and praise me on these things.  

A quality blog comment should start with the below;

____________________________________________________________________


  +Ths is my writtting about my cat .   i did this on Monday.///

By Brogan 

Back to School Stopmotion from Charli and Kobe

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CRT Challenge: Make a Marble Run...

CRT Teachers - Bubble Photo Challenge

Kia ora Koutou 

Students @Rāwhiti School who have Blogs...

The CRT-Cool Rise Team, teachers have the next challenge for you!

What items can you find from your bubble?  Remember not to harm anything that can move! I have attached a snapshot of the bubble Challenge you can also use this image on your blog to explain the activity.

Create a photo collage and post this on your student blog. 

If you have a Chromebook why not use Befunky to create your collage.  

Check out the blog post @Rāwhiti By the Sea with instructions on how to use Befunky click here.

We can't wait to see your collage on your blog!

Title your post: Bubble Photo Challenge

Ngā mihi CRT Teachers

Guinea Pigs safe and sound!

The guinea pigs are having a great time during the day.

It is getting cold outside at night so the guinea pigs have to come inside!

They are super happy but they are missing all of you!

Time to get creative!

It's time to get creative!

Send Brogan a picture or recording of something you have been working on at home in isolation. This could be a puzzle, painting, dance, song, anything you have been getting creative with. Once you have sent them I will make an animation and post onto our blog to show the world how creative we are. 

New Fitness Challenge! Who can do the most plank stands?!

Well done to all the students who completed last weeks fitness challenge! It was so great to see all your videos and to see everyone doing more star jumps than me! For this challenge, you will need to set a timer for a minute to see how many planks stands you can do going from your elbows up to your hands!

Star Jump Challenge Accepted!

Anameka and Jai are doing the star jump challenge - count how many they did.

Home Learning Google Slide - How to

Challenge accepted by Will

Another day, another challenge completed by one of the children in Papaūānuku. 

Well done Will! 

13 days in isolation

You can accomplish a lot in 13 days of isolation and if you are Ben and his family it has lots to do with LEGO! 

Check out these creations! 

Challenge accepted by Ben!

Well done to Ben, 

who accepted my challenge and added his own twist. Instead of taking pictures of things starting with each letter of the alphabet, he thought it would be better to practise his writing and spelling by writing down something for each letter of the alphabet. Great thinking Ben! I really like it how you change the challenge to suit your style of sharing.

I love that people are accepting my challenges and having fun doing them. I am keeping a tally of those who are participating in challenges and I hope to put them in a draw to win something special when we get back to school!

Keep them coming! Remember to send to your work to Brogan. 

Challenge accepted by Anameka!

Well done Anameka, you accepted my challenge and you smashed it! You even put the pictures in alphabetical order. 

I wonder if anyone else will accept the challenge?

Anameka has been busy in her bubble!

Anameka has been very busy in her isolation bubble. She has been busy ticking off things on the activities list sent home from school and some of her own activities!

I love seeing what you have been up to at home Anameka. 

Well done to Ben who did 76 star jumps! He has done the most star jumps out of everyone! Can you beat him?

How many star jumps can you do in one minute?

Kia ora all! I have an exciting challenge for you! The challenge is for you to see how many star jumps you can do in just one minute! I managed to do 62 star jumps today. Can you try to beat me?

Take a video of yourself completing this challenge and send it through to courtneyr@rawhiti.school.nz. Also if you are super creative you can make up your own challenge, maybe you could see how many sit-ups or high knees you could do.
 

Challenge time!

We have some very creative children in Papatūānuku. I have been busy looking at blog posts over the past two weeks and I am so impressed with people publishing what they have been up to in isolation. One of them was James. James was given a challenge by his Mum, to find and take a photo of something for every letter of the alphabet. James made a pic collage of something for every letter. I loved this idea so much that I wanted to share it and for you to give it a try at home. 

I am setting a challenge for you! Can you be like James and find and take a picture of something for every letter of the alphabet? The things you find can be from around your home, you don't have to leave your bubble. Be creative! Once you have done this, turn it into a pic collage or a slide show and send it to Brogan to share with everyone, or even better send it to Brogan and she can... post it to your own blog!   

I can't wait to see what you find. 

This is what James created. Do you know what letters are missing from here? Comment below!

Another Story Time!

Writing- The Tunnel by Hugo

Ben's Scones